You're right and I agree completely with the Mike Harding comment. However, I wasn't so much suggesting that it should be a series of hagiographies of well-known 'folkstars', more that it would be hard to make any sort of programme about folk music without looking at the work of the people who've changed the way it's played and sung over the last 40-50 years. I was thinking of it as more of a 'history of..' programme that would finish with a 'so where next?' which would be where the current scene would come in and you could show the vast diversity it has today.

Incidentally, off on a tangent, why hasn't anyone pitched the idea of 'Folk Idol' to the BBC? With the amount of lovable eccentrics the folk scene attracts it'd be the most compulsive viewing ever!